Multiple Choice
In pre-Copernican astronomy, it was almost universally believed that
A) the planets traveled in elliptical orbits about Earth.
B) the center of the universe was the Sun with the Milky Way representing other distant planets.
C) the Sun was at the center of the universe.
D) Earth was at the center of the universe.
E) None of the above was believed.
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